The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-30
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

during January
The Fort Wayne Jenney electric system will
go into Louisville.
Several large stove foundries will shortly be
put In operation in the West.
In spite of the lateness of the season there 10
less than usual falling off in building permits
throughout the country
Hundreds of families waiting for houses
to be completed at Findlay. O., where there is
already population of 5000
The pressed brick makers of Chicago saw there
is such an urgent demand for bricks that the
railway facilities are unequal to handle all that
are offered.
The workinemen of Virginia will meet at
Stanton take steps to have convict labor
abolished. and TO establish State Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
giving the manufacturers there a good deal of
trouble. The shoemakers taking the lead.
Low wages and harsh rules have caused the
trouble
The miners throughout the Western States
are preparing to hold a convention at PIttsburg
to arrange scale of wages to be paid in the a
rious districts throughout the country from and
after May l.
Manufacturers. large and small. throughout
the Ohio valley are more or less troubled
count of the shortage OF coal. Several large
brick yards have shut down because of the high
price of fuel.
A pound of <ten-penny cut nails will do as
much work two pounds of wire nails. TAX
ing the average of all cut nails they are worth
nearly double much wire nails, according
to tests made at the WATERFOWL government
arsenal
The manufacturers of tile and drainage ma
teral in Indiana will meet Dec. Ii and IA, al
Indianapolis. to form a stronger organization.
meeting of the National Association of Clay
Machinery Manufacturers will meet at the same
time and place.
The brick-makers convention at Chicago
agreed that American bricks shall be 81 inches
long, inches wide and p inches thick: iris
gives twenty bricks for cubic foot of wall.
Two hundred years ago Parliament endeavored
to regulate the size of bricks.
great many lines of business heretofore
or three years, been moving West Western
newspaper claims that more cloaks and suits
made in Chicago now than in any other city in
the country. All kinds Of manufacturing
springing up throughout the West
By the new process in engraving, which prom
lses to revolutionize the arts. a picture Is made
direct from the photograph, and is done alto
gether by the action of light. By this msthod
it is possible to produce plates for printing with
Photographic accuracy from photographs, washed
drawings. pencil-sketches and meZZotint prints.
The experiment is being made in Chicago Of
paving street with steel rails sixteen feet ten
inches in length with grooved surface top
SO that horses will not slip them The rails
will be placed few inches apart, and the space
between will be filled with patent com position
that is said to be very hard and durable. A
trial of fifty tons has been made at the Bay
View iron works, Mich
Manufacturing towns are sprineing MP all
over the vast region west of the Mississippi. and
there is great scarcity Of material in many of
them. Labor is in demand TO hurry along build
ing operations and there is appearance of a
surplus of labor anywhere in the Southwest.
Mechanics are earning very good wages, and
instead of returning East for tho winter they
expect to remain where they are.
The best information to be had concerning
next years probabilities is that work of all kinds
will be abundant No changes in tina hours OF
labor or its wages anticipated. Employers
believe that no extreme steps will be taken
less an attempt shall be made to equaliZe the
ofaSa of - 1f rad
There is possibility of trouble with the brick
makers but efforts to be made this winter
to adjust all differences.
Industrial enterprise seems to be gaining
courage in the South the season progresses
A new silk factory is to be erected at Wades-
ooro, WOODEN factory at Fayetteville. cotton
factory at Abbeyvllle, S. c., and several furni-
ture factories. A dozen or more cotton gins are
projected In Georgia and even in Florida good
deal or manufacturing capitals finding employ
ment The same ACTIVITY is in Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
A Nashville business summary says building
IN and around that city is very brisk Plans
and contracts for new buildings next year
plentiful News from surrounding towns with
In thirty miles show that there is great indus
trial activity. Stocks OF goods of any and all
kinds not excessive and lumber has ad-
vanced from so cents to ST. per thousand feet.
This is due to an unexpectedly large demand
for lum her from the Western prairie States
The miners throughout the country have
gained very little permanent advantage by their
agitations this year The natural improvements
in demand has helped wages mp ia some locali-
ties, but trade organization is not credited with
very much of the improvement The miners
recognize that their mistake for years has been
to fight coal section against an other and one
State against another. Their effort now is to
establish scale of wages suitable for the vari-
Gus mining districts, and then TO act together,
one section refusing to fill the contracts of
other section in case of strikes
Builders doing business in twenty seven of
the larger cities of the Union represented in
the National Association of Builders the second
annual convention of which is to be held in Gin
ciunati next February. vast amount of val
uable statistical information covering the ques-
ton of the hours OF labor, wages paid per day or
hour in the idle and busy seasons, strikes and
lockouts-ln fact. Information of all kinds relat-
ing to building interests, is now being gathered
to be submitted at the meeting. The builders
throughout the country will have the advantage
OF strong and compact organization.
TINE is too valuable TO be wasted in credu-
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